“Truth and Integrity in Medicine” is the theme of this year’s Catholic Medical Association of Australia conference, to be held in Melbourne in October. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Innocuous as those words might seem, in today’s climate they can be dangerous, CMAA chair Eamonn Mathieson said.
“Many doctors that have spoken what is true in the public space are being sanctioned,” Dr Mathieson said.
“To speak about the Catholic understanding about the truth of the human person, whether it’s in the context of abortion, whether it’s in the context of gender, can invite professional sanction and notifications from regulatory authorities.”
The two-day national conference will be held on October 18-19 at St Peter’s Parish Centre in Toorak.
On the evening before, the CMAA will also host the annual Nicholas Tonti-Filippini Oration, to be given this year by Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP. His topic will be “Reflections on Evangelism Vitae and Australian Culture – 30 years on.”
Conferences speakers will discuss issues ranging from dark and controversial, like euthanasia, abortion, pornography and gender medicine, to inspirational, like the legacy of Catholic nun and doctor Sr Mary Glowrey, holistic mental health care, and a scientific perspective on Eucharistic miracles.
It will be a sort of “Dantean progression,” with a “transition that moves from the darkness of the Inferno through Purgatorio and into Paradiso,” Dr Mathieson said.
Among the speakers are Professor David Kissane, an internationally-renowned expert on end-of-life care, and Professor Hayden Ramsey, president of the Catholic Institute of Sydney.
About a hundred people are expected to attend.
State associations of Catholic doctors began in the 1930s, but faded in recent years. The CMAA is a national body which was launched in 2018 and has been endorsed by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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Catholic Medical Association to host Melbourne conference (By Michael Cook, The Catholic Weekly)
